Netskope acquires Kadiska to develop its proactive digital experience management

Integration of Kadiska digital experience platform sets new standard for SASE performance

Netskope acquires Kadiska to develop its proactive digital experience management

Secure access service edge (SASE) vendor, Netskope, has acquired digital experience monitoring firm Kadiska.

The news follows the announcement of enhancements coming to Netskope's digital experience management (DEM) capabilities with the introduction of Netskope Proactive DEM (P-DEM).

According to the vendor, it cements Netskope's advances in the ability to monitor and remediate performance and assure experience across the entire SASE architecture, as well as across the cloud and application estate.

Kadiska was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in France, with a hybrid international team of digital experience management experts.

With decades of experience in DEM, application performance monitoring, and network performance monitoring, the Kadiska team built its technology to combine real user experience monitoring with end-to-end network and application performance visibility from user devices to hybrid, SaaS and cloud applications.

These capabilities complement and enhance Netskope's AI- and ML-fuelled proactive experience remediation cross the technology stack.

Sanjay Beri, CEO and co-founder of Netskope commented: "The founding vision of Kadiska matches uncannily well with the Netskope platform vision.

"Both technologies have been built to recognise the new world where data, users, cloud infrastructure and applications are all dispersed, leaving blind spots and challenges for organisations seeking to control and optimise experience and security.

"We already share some very large global customers and seeing the appetite for the integration - bringing together the capabilities of both companies - really proved to us the rationale for this acquisition."

Gilles Huguenin, CEO at Kadiska also added: "Through a 20-year journey, the Kadiska team has assembled unparalleled experience, bringing together individuals with a deep understanding of the challenges and opportunities for improving digital experience across complex modern infrastructure, applications and hybrid workplaces.

"We are incredibly excited that our team and technology has become a part of the Netskope platform as it aligns perfectly with our commitment to helping organisations overcome the historical trade-offs between security and user experience."

Analysts estimate SASE to be a $36bn (£28.65bn) market opportunity by 2025, and Gartner predicts the market to grow at a CAGR of 36 per cent over the next five years.

Gartner also expects that, by 2026, at least 60 per cent of infrastructure and operations leaders will use DEM to measure application, services and endpoint performance from the user's viewpoint, up from less than 20 per cent in 2021.

Frank Dickson, Group VP of security and trust at IDC commented on the announcement: "Enterprises across the globe are undertaking security and network transformation to support changing working patterns and new IT architectures.

"These projects seek to provide secure, high-quality connectivity for every user, on any device, from anywhere to any application, which makes the ability to monitor, manage and optimise the users' experience a critical success factor.

"This acquisition by Netskope demonstrates the company's focus on providing a complete platform for its customers, giving both security and networking teams the ability to understand, in real time, how networks and applications are performing, and take action as needed."

Netskope recently debuted a new MSP partner programme featuring a new as-a-service business model framework.

The fresh MSP route is an extension of Netskope's Evolve partner programme and aims to help partners expand their revenue streams with an additional route to market and profitable service offerings.